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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Mae West: Wolverhampton

The artist who helped create the cover for the Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band — — which featured MAE WEST — — is having an exhibition of additional works inspired by The Empress of Sex.• • Once based in London (while married to the painter Peter Blake), and now a resident of Sundance, Utah, Jann Haworth has a show currently at Wolverhampton Art Gallery — — her first in the UK since 1972. On display are her creations from back in the 1960s as well as more recent work.• • According to British-based Terry Grimley, her father’s work in Hollywood must have been a direct influence on Haworth, as was the 1960s taste for old-fashioned glamour, often characterised as kitsch. These threads (literally) come together in pieces like Mae West Dressing Table (1965) and the triple portrait relief of Mae West, Shirley Temple and W C Fields (1967). ...• • Grimley writes: Actually there is not always a great deal that immediately distinguishes the early work from the latest. Jann Haworth’s figures and objects are stitched together from a range of materials including canvas, kapok, and vinyl, and the introduction to the exhibition makes much of the feminine character of her materials and techniques. Her Cowboy from 1963-64 — — a life-size figure in white, leaning against the wall with his hat pulled down over his eyes — — is about as realistic and life-like as her figures get. When the sculptor Eduardo Paolozzi saw it he suggested she cast it in bronze, but she preferred to stick to “a female language to which the male students didn’t have access.” Haworth has described the domestic media adopted by some female artists as having a “B-movie” relationship to the traditional media of fine art. ...• • The full title of Grimley's art review is below to help you find out more about the exhibit in England at Wolverhampton Art Gallery until 10 April 2010.— — Excerpt: — —• • Article: "Birmingham Art: Jann Hawarth's unique view of the world at Wolverhampton Art Gallery"• • BY: Terry Grimley | Life & Leisure columnist• • Published by: The Birmingham Post — — www.birminghampost.net• • Published on: 24 December 2009• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/________Source:http://maewest.blogspot.com/atom.xmlMae West• • Photo: • • Mae West • • none • •• • Feed — —http://feeds2.feedburner.com/MaeWestNYCMae West.